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By Don Del Rosso
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The idea of building a 500,000volt transmission line through Rappahannock County to serve Northern Virginia mystifies him.
“I can’t understand them running it tfiat way,” County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bob Anderson (Stonewall-Hawthome District) said last week. “It doesn’t make a lotf of sense to me.”
Still, Dominion Virginia Power announced Tuesday it wants to do just that.
It proposes to build a new transmission line along an existing rightof-way through parts of Culpeper, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Prince William and Loudoun counties.
In doing so, Dominion would avoid the northern Piedmont, where Realtors, landowners, conservation groups and wineries have relentlessly opposed putting a power line through some of the most pristine countryside in Virginia.
Dominion identified the route as its “preferred” alternative last week.
“We believe it has the least overall impact to the region and it had similar electrical benefits* to any route in the original study corridor, Dominion vice president for electric transmission John Smatlak said Tuesday.
That original corridor encompasses portions of Frederick, Warren, northern Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties.
See POWER, Page A2
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